Example sentences of "he [is] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is served by a lovely cast who lift a gossamer-thin veil to show the misunderstandings and subtle warrings which make up human relations in all their glory . |
| 2 | How , for example , can a man be a British citizen when he is born in a foreign country of foreign parents and has never been naturalised ? |
| 3 | He is assisted by a technical director , Allan Cook , formerly head of accounting research at Shell , and seven other members . |
| 4 | And he is blessed with a beautiful , evenly produced , voice . |
| 5 | He is kept under a wholesome course of discipline by Lavinia and her august mamma . |
| 6 | I can confirm that he is supported by a competent staff , and has never actually been convicted of being foreign or of committing serial buttock fondling in his office or elsewhere . |
| 7 | He is supported by a wonderful cast which graces a movie that deserves the label of epic . |
| 8 | This Devonian is more than a useful one-day cricketer who does his stuff as a medium-pace seamer. he is rated as a sound technical batsman , sure-footed against the spinner and able to get the short-pitched bowling away . |
| 9 | a manager might have to change his leadership style as the circumstances of his job change ( eg. when he is moved to a new job ) . |
| 10 | If the candidate makes the grade in the Hawk , where he learns to handle fast jets and basic skills in bombing and dogfighting , he is posted to a Tactical Weapons Unit where these skills are honed . |
| 11 | Both these are sometimes slightly exaggerated : there has been some decentralisation since 1983 and , as the period of cohabitation demonstrated , the President 's power can be compromised if he is faced by a hostile majority in the Assemblée Nationale . |
| 12 | However , when he is transferred to a strange yard with different handlers , even if it is a good establishment , his natural nervous temperament will reappear , explaining why so many new owners think their horse may have been drugged when they bought it . |
| 13 | One character , Camille , can not pronounce them until he is fitted with a false palate one more object to get comically lost . |
| 14 | One character , Camille , can not pronounce them until he is fitted with a false palate : one more object to get comically lost . |
| 15 | THE MID-POINT between No Name and Unforgiven finds Eastwood as a Confederate raider redeemed after the war as he is assimilated into a rag-tag community of rejects and losers , slowly losing his appetite for violence and vengeance . |
| 16 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |
| 17 | In these occasional pieces , he is revealed as a psychological critic whose apparent ability to immerse himself in another poet 's personality comes close to an act of clairvoyance . |
| 18 | Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him . |
| 19 | Taken from the Zulu people who helped nurture him , he is sent to a brutish Boer boarding school . |
| 20 | But he is represented under a legal aid order , this defendant , by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 21 | He is represented as a plump youth riding on a sparrow or a parrot , and he carries a bow of bee-encrusted sugar cane and five arrows , which represent the Five Senses . |
| 22 | He is scheduled for a reserve outing later this week . |
| 23 | This shows he is headed for a clear collision course with the opposition . |
| 24 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 25 | He is summoned by a male secretary . |
| 26 | He is seen as a reforming Communist and was , for a while , in charge of the youth section of the party and a provincial Communist Party leader . |
| 27 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 28 | Since , as we have seen , Adorno overestimates the homogeneity of culture under advanced capitalism , he is led to a similar interpretation of popular musical form . |
| 29 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 30 | By 1739 he is recorded as a private merchant in the East India Company 's settlement of Bombay . |